Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 12:48:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "J. C." <jason@webquest.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: connection to the network was lost Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980509124759.3051Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3553BAE8.2C52FAF8@webquest.com>
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On Sat, 9 May 1998, J. C. wrote: > hello...I'm having problems with my FreeBSD ....I'm running version > 2.2.2 on a dual ethernet machine with TIS toolkit....my ISA ehternet > card is connected to the internet while the other one, an on-board > ethernet is inside the firewall. the on-board was detected as fxp0 > <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet>, uses irq 10 on pci0:0..the > problem is...the on-board ethernet looses its connection to the network > a couple of times everyday....it can't ping the machines on its network > but it can ping itself.....to get it working again ....I have to reboot > it...is ther a permanent solution for this...thanks Check your cabling. If you have flaky cabling the fxp may be trying to renegotiate the speed. You can whack the fxp back into action by doing ifconfig fxp0 down ifconfig fxp0 up Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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